This evening from the top of the dam at Mansfield Hollow/Windham Airpot
in Windham:
1 molting male Ring-necked Duck --- very wierd looking bird
48 Killdeer --- Numbers have been increasing significantly in the last
2 weeks
2 Spotted Sandpipers
6 Bank Swallows
12 No. Rough-winged Swallows
2 Eastern Meadowlarks --- breeders I believe
For those who are unfamiliar with this small grassland, It is accessed
from the commuter parking lot just east of Willimantic on Route 6. Also
as the water levels in Mansfield Hollow, HOPEFULLY, drop later this
summer, large flat appear enticing many species of shorebirds to this
inland site.
Phil Rusch
Chaplin, CT